Castilleja chlorotica
Castilleja haydenii
green tinged paintbrush, green-tinged or Gearheart Mountain paintbrush, greentinge Indian paintbrush
Hayden's Indian paintbrush, Hayden's paintbrush
several to many, erect to ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched near base, hairs spreading, long, soft, eglandular, mixed with dense, short stipitate-glandular ones.
few to many, spreading to ascending, unbranched except for short, leafy shoots in axils of leaves, glabrate to distally puberulent, hairs sparse to dense, spreading, ± short, soft, sometimes stipitate-glandular.
green, narrowly to broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 9–35 cm, not fleshy, margins wavy, involute, 0(–3)-lobed, distal sometimes 3-lobed, apex narrowly acuminate;
lobes ascending or spreading, linear to lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse.
green to purple, linear or narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong, (1.1–)2–8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, (0–)3–7(–9)-lobed, apex acute to obtuse;
lobes spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate.
3–9(–18) × 2–3 cm;
bracts green to pale green to rarely dull purplish brown throughout, distally rarely with pale yellow apices, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic to sometimes broadly lanceolate, 3-lobed, wavy-margined;
lobes spreading or ascending, narrowly lanceolate, medium length, arising at or above mid length, sometimes wavy-margined, apex obtuse to acute.
2.5–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm;
bracts rose purple, magenta, lilac, or crimson throughout, or proximally greenish to dull purplish, distally as above, lanceolate to ovate or broadly elliptic, 3–7(–13)-lobed;
lobes spreading to erect, linear to narrowly lanceolate, long or short, proximal arising below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to acute, lateral ones acute.
conspicuously decurved distally, 18–22 mm;
tube 11–14 mm;
beak exserted, adaxially green to yellow-green or yellow, 6–8 mm;
abaxial lip green, reduced, fleshy, included, 1.5–2 mm, 25% as long as beak, sparsely hairy, hairs spreading;
teeth ascending, green, 0.5–1 mm.
straight or slightly curved, 20–25 mm;
tube 13–15 mm;
beak exserted, sometimes part of abaxial lip equal to or exceeding calyx;
beak adaxially green, 6–8 mm;
abaxial lip greenish at base, becoming white to rose pink on apices, reduced, slightly pouched, 2–3 mm, 33–50% as long as beak;
teeth ascending, white, pink, or green, 1–2.2 mm.
green or yellowish green, 15–19 mm;
abaxial and adaxial clefts 9–11 mm, 60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 3.5–7 mm, 15–25% of calyx length;
lobes broadly or narrowly triangular, taller than wide, apex acute to obtuse.
colored as bracts, 12–26 mm;
abaxial and adaxial clefts 5–10 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.2–6 mm, 25% of calyx length;
lobes triangular, apex acute.
= 24.
Castilleja chlorotica
Castilleja haydenii
Castilleja chlorotica is an uncommon to rare endemic on dry slopes in Deschutes, Klamath, Lake, and possibly Crook counties in central Oregon. The hooked corolla beak and greenish bracts, often aging purplish distally, help distinguish it from similar species such as C. glandulifera and yellow forms of C. applegatei var. pinetorum.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Castilleja haydenii is endemic to high-elevation slopes in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. It is known in Utah from a single collection from high elevations in the La Sal Mountains. Reports of this species elsewhere are usually attributable to C. rhexiifolia. Its affinities are uncertain. Some features are shared with C. rhexiifolia, but in other ways it resembles species such as C. lemmonii of the Sierra Nevada. Plants in the northwestern portions of its range tend to have less divided leaves. Castilleja haydenii occasionally hybridizes with C. occidentalis where the two commingle in the lower alpine zone.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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